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Memorial service October 30th, 1 30 PM, at the Shir Shalom Temple, Woodstock, VT.
The appeal of the Shir o Khorshid pendant for me is complex and multilayered.
Displaying or selling the Shir o Khorshid is technically illegal in Iran, but many shopkeepers told me the police aren't enforcing the law as much as they used to.
The Shir o Khorshid, a popular Iranian symbol since at least the 12th century, has since the revolution become associated with the deposed monarch Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and his dynasty.
These are remnants, spared a literal-white washing, of the Shir o Khorshid, or Lion and Sun, a coat of arms that graced the Iranian flag from the mid 19th century until the 1979 Revolution when it was replaced by a stylized version of the word Allah ("God") written in Arabic script.
Vintage Iranian rial notes and postage stamps emblazoned with his face, brass busts of him and his infamously fabulous wife Empress Farah, coffee-table books with full-colour photos of the royal family, countless pendants, rings, and wall hangings depicting the Shir o Khorshid, some vintage and some obviously mass-produced more recently.
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The Hedysarum is $22 an ounce, and the Shir-Khesht is $28.
Even more complex and subtle is the Shir-Khesht manna from the cotoneaster nummilaria shrub.
Gesturing at the swastika on the cover of the Shirer, one of them says, "We call you Hitler".
And I was reminded of the Shirer quote, as the fans looked equally insane, possessed, and inhuman.
Two young people from opposite sides of the border – Shir, 16, of Israel, and Christine, 17, of Lebanon – were each curious to talk to a teenager in the other country.
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